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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: 鈥淚 want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.

Veteran journalist and author Peter C. Newman, who held a mirror up to Canada, has died at the age of 94. He died in hospital in Belleville, Ont.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year's winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of the poetry world's most lucrative prizes.

David Bergen, Sarah Bernstein and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer are among the authors on the long list for this year鈥檚 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Last year鈥檚 winner, Suzette Mayr, revealed the list in St. John鈥檚, N.L.

MONTREAL 鈥� Quebec author Kevin Lambert is in the running for the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his latest novel, "Que notre joie demeure." In a phone interview, the Saguenay, Que.

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvar

鈥淩eading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir," by Susannah Kennedy (Sibylline Press) When her mother Jane, a healthy 75-year-old, shockingly decides to take her own life, Susannah Kennedy is left reeling with innumerable questions.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner (Atria Books) 2. The Girl in the Eagle鈥檚 Talons by Karin Smirnoff & Sarah Death (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 3. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper) 4.

鈥淗olly鈥� by Stephen King (Scribner) In half a century of writing horror novels, Stephen King has created some remarkable villains.